Geobase/Canadian Aboriginal Lands

The GeoBase Aboriginal Lands data set is an important part of the geographic fabric of Canada. Although only the current Indian Reserves it provides an insight into where the Aboriginal Peoples of Canada originally lived.

Script

There is a script based on geobase2osm.py called geobase_al2osm.py that will be used to convert the GeoBase files to osm files. Since there is likely little overlap with current OSM features, I believe it would be a good idea to create osm files by province, and import them after a test case.

The resulting conversion created ## .osm files which are approximately 50,000 nodes each.
Please do NOT upload these files all in 1 go. (as this action is counter productive for the development of OpenStreetMap. see http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Additional_Help Beginners' guide. ALOT of work has been done with drawing in park boundaries all across the country. Please be careful & contact the author of the park that exists to see what their source of the their information was.

User:Acrosscanadatrails is working on many parts of the Country for the Across Canada Trails project. So he is working on getting many of the Parks loaded. Feel free to contact him on the talk-ca@openstreetmap.org if you have questions. He can re-convert the whole file if needed.